Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency White Papers

WHITE PAPER: When evaluating deduplication solutions, there are five important design factors to consider. Understanding these factors can help ensure that the deduplication solution you select today will meet your needs well into the future.

Posted: 25 May 2011 | Published: 25 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: This overview of the 2010 IBM Global IT Risk Study uncovers the challenges associated with IT risk, and the steps IT managers and CIOs are taking to better understand, confront and resolve this concern.

Posted: 19 May 2011 | Published: 19 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: A virtualization platform can be very expensive. It's important to consider all costs included in the virtualization process  to ensure a successful virtual environment. Read on to discover how the combination of two Red Hat operating systems will lower your total cost of ownership and increase your infrastructure value

Posted: 19 May 2011 | Published: 19 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper describes how CFOs can help ensure a healthier bottom line by taking proactive steps today.

Posted: 19 May 2011 | Published: 01 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper describes the challenges data center managers face, and details how an IBM data center successfully leveraged integrated IT and facilities solutions to get more from existing investments.

Posted: 18 May 2011 | Published: 01 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: Tiered storage solutions are becoming increasingly popular for its ability to accommodate rapid data growth while controlling costs.  Yet many organizations fail to maximize the potential of tiered storage.  Check out this white paper for some best practices to realize the ultimate potential of a tiered storage solution.

Posted: 29 Apr 2011 | Published: 29 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: Through this year-long series of whitepapers and webinars, independent analyst Ben Kepes will be building a cloud computing curriculum designed for technologists and non-technical users alike.

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 | Published: 25 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: Intel's Cloud 2015 Vision is that cloud computing is federated, automated, and client-aware. Moving the industry toward that promise will require a focus on three industry-wide pillars of cloud computing - efficiency, simplification, and security - and on solutions that are open, multi-vendor and interoperable.

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 | Published: 08 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: Cloud computing promises large gains in efficiency and flexibility at a time when demands on data centers are growing exponentially. Intel’s vision for the future of this technology focuses on key principles to make the vision a reality. View this resource to learn more.

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 | Published: 07 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: The Intel Cloud Builders program provides a starting point as it supplies a basic hardware blueprint and available cloud software management solutions such as the Cisco* Virtualized Multi-Tenant Data Center (VMDC). The paper focuses on the design of converged fabrics to meet the needs of the multi-tenant, cloud data center.

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 | Published: 24 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: With advanced virtualization management, intelligent configuration management and more, Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center helps IT managers reduce complexity, and simplify infrastructure management. 

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 | Published: 01 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: To help you assess both the full costs and overall benefits of datacenter management solutions, this white paper examines the primary inefficiencies found in typical datacenters, and then presents the strategies commonly used to resolve them.

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 | Published: 01 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: There is a need for greater optimization and efficiency in how software and solutions that power datacenters are deployed and managed. Read this white paper for a virtualization solution that will facilitate flexibility, agility, and speed in deploying complete application stacks to support the new service-based charter.

Posted: 22 Mar 2011 | Published: 01 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: Intel’s new data center strategies shift the emphasis away from reducing the number of physical data center facilities to, instead, focusing on approaches that leverage the full potential of their data centers worldwide, enabling a nominal cost savings of about USD 1 billion by 2014.

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 | Published: 18 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: To support the execution of multiple workloads without starving applications of vital compute resources, a virtualization platform needs to offer high compute performance, a large memory footprint, and superior I/O expansion capabilities. Read on to learn how Oracle’s Sun Fire X4470 server is an ideal mission-critical virtualization platform.

Posted: 16 Mar 2011 | Published: 01 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: Oracle introduces the new Sun Fire X4170 M2, the most versatile IT infrastructure building block server and the Sun Fire X4270 M2 server, the ideal server for clustered database and virtualized workloads.

Posted: 16 Mar 2011 | Published: 01 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: This document is intended as a technical guide for developers and system administrators that want to understand the precise details of how Oracle® Solaris and Oracle’s Sun x86 systems using Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 and 7500 series can improve your enterprise application solution environment.

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 | Published: 01 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: Oracle’s Sun SPARC Enterprise servers are designed specifically as general-purpose application, database, data warehousing, and consolidation servers. They are especially suited to address the needs of enterprise datacenters, with a goal of increasing performance and flexibility while consolidating systems to reduce datacenter costs and complexity.

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 | Published: 01 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: Oracle’s Sun Fire X2270 M2 server provides the most effective path to cloud and technical computing. They bring an enhanced next generation, small form-factor, high performance system to the datacenter. Continue reading to learn more.

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 | Published: 03 May 2010

WHITE PAPER: The Sun Blade 6000 Modular Systems present a comprehensive multitier blade portfolio that lets organizations deploy the broadest range of applications on the most ideal platforms. This document describes the Sun Blade 6000 Modular Systems along with their key applications, architecture, and components.

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 | Published: 01 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: Oracle’s Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server provides a combination of freely available and no-cost virtualization technologies, excellent reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) ratings, very high performance hardware, and significant data center efficiency gains. Continue reading to learn more.

Posted: 14 Mar 2011 | Published: 01 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: This technical white paper discusses a drop-in implementation of Coherence running on Oracle's Sun servers utilizing Oracle Fusion Middleware components, most prominently WebLogic Suite.

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 | Published: 01 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: The Intel Cloud Builders program provides a starting point by supplying a basic hardware blueprint and available cloud software management solutions, such as Intel® SOA Expressway. The use cases described in this reference architecture can be used as a baseline to build more complex usage and deployment models to suit specific customer needs.

Posted: 22 Feb 2011 | Published: 22 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines that a data centre design  must meet specific requirements including; site selection, space, available power, air conditioning, load, environmental quality, and risk evaluation, but also the requirements of the electrical power supply system. It is also discusses how necessary it is to consider the cost of service downtime.

Posted: 15 Feb 2011 | Published: 15 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: The Cisco UCS power configuration approach enables users to meet their redundancy and power density needs. The approach is simple yet flexible enough to adapt to the varying needs for different applications within the data center. Continue reading to learn more.

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 | Published: 01 Oct 2010